On being safe, and visible - and a PLONKER!

[SARGE]

yea .. sorry man .. i run my hi-beams when i ride during the day .. i have 60/100 dual ice blue halogens on the 'Ace.. wired through a relay to make them REAL bright..used to run the same on the FJ but through a modulator till it fried from the voltage

rather be seen thanks ..

[smoky]

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You need to clean your visor dude

[Badjelly]

Dunno. To me it's an interesting issue. One which would benefit from some proper study to determine the value/cost of being 'very' obvious on a bike.

It's been done, but as usual the results are not as clear-cut as you'd think. Motorcyclists who use their headlights during the day and/or wear high-vis clothing have fewer crashes than those who don't (by 30-40%, sorry I can't recall the exact number, but if you look around this site you will find references). The problem is, that effect might be a result of them being naturally more careful people in the first place. Me, I go with my natural carefulness: I use the headlight all the time (low-beam) and I wear a dorky high-vis vest.

[tzrmike]

It's been done, but as usual the results are not as clear-cut as you'd think. Motorcyclists who use their headlights during the day and/or wear high-vis clothing have fewer crashes than those who don't (by 30-40%, sorry I can't recall the exact number, but if you look around this site you will find references). The problem is, that effect might be a result of them being naturally more careful people in the first place. Me, I go with my natural carefulness: I use the headlight all the time (low-beam) and I wear a dorky high-vis vest.

I have read something similar in Superbike, IIRC. The jist was, if we all started wearing hi-vis, instead of just the "Captain Safety" types, the number of accidents while wearing hi-vis would skyrocket, so then the govt would probably make them illegal to try and cut the number of bike accidents!